My Current Chaos

New home!

2011-12-04T19:07:00.000-07:00

For the three of you who actually follow my blog....... I've moved! My new address is www.mycurrentchaos.com/blog or just click here. Hope you like my new home!!!

Lunch today

2011-10-24T14:01:00.001-07:00

Didn't know what to make for lunch today. Scanned the contents of the household and found: Wildflower Bread Bakery Sourdough Bread (mmmm, the very best bread, but if you don't live here in AZ, any hearty sourdough bread will do) pesto grape tomatoes goat cheese shredded mozzarella Know what I did with it? Made a caprese (sort of) sandwich. One of my fave restaurants, The Living Room,

Time Flies....

2011-10-16T18:11:00.000-07:00

When you're busy with school. Sorry folks. Lots of good food being made here inbetween the Photoshop projects, HTML coding and now reading about business & society. Eeesh. Not to mention Ron and I took a short jaunt to Reno/Lake Tahoe/Truckee this past week. I have lots to post about that. Will definitely get some recipes uploaded this week too. And some knitting projects. It's been

YUM!

2011-09-30T13:37:00.000-07:00

Decided to make Joy the Baker's Avocado & Edamame Salad for lunch today. Can I just say YUM again? Joy may be an incredible baker, but when she ventures out into "real" food, she comes up with awesome recipes there as well. Super easy salad to make. Some slicing and chopping and grating, but nothing a novice can't handle. Very healthy ingredients. One note - I did increase the avocado from

zzzzzzz

2011-09-27T20:41:00.000-07:00

I am sitting on my couch watching my dogs sleep and listening to my husband snore. It's making me tired. At this rate I'll be sleeping before 10. And that's not really such a bad thing, is it?

Faux Fall

2011-09-25T13:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome to AZ, home of the "faux fall." While the rest of the country is donning sweatshirts and making hot, comfort food dishes, we're still sweltering in 100+ degrees of heat. It's totally unfair to someone like me who lives for sweaters and soups and stews. Today I decided I would crank down the a/c and make a pot roast and apple pie. HA! Take that Sonoran Desert hell!!! The pot

Ron's Favorite Shrimp

2011-09-23T16:55:00.000-07:00

Ron spends a lot of time eating. And watching TV. He spends very little time actually going to work. His job consists mostly of laying around eating, watching TV and waiting for the phone to ring. It's a great job if you can get it. Because of this he tires of the average snack food. He loves this shrimp recipe. So much so that he will often ask for it several times a month. Sometimes

Lazy Sunday

2011-09-18T14:41:00.002-07:00

Ever have one of those days that you just can't seem to get moving? Um, yeah, I have lots of them. Still, I try to get up every morning and get dressed and get moving so the bed doesn't look so inviting. (okay, not my bedroom, but it's really cute!) This morning we walked the dogs at the park for the first time in months. It's been far too hot. Still have to get up early to do it, by 9 it's

On the eve of 9/11

2011-09-10T21:05:00.000-07:00

Tempe 9/11 Memorial Healing Field, Tempe Town Lake We will never forget.

Friday Funny

2011-08-12T10:40:00.001-07:00

My dear friend Sue sent me this funny today. I think it needs to be shared with the world. For all of you who are married, were married, wish you were married or wish you were not married, this is something to smile about the next time you see a bottle of wine. Sally was driving home from one of her business trips, in Northern Arizona, when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the

Movies and my hub

2011-08-02T20:26:00.000-07:00

We had a discussion at dinner the other night about the movies we've actually gone to the theater to see in the 20+ years that we've been married. Turns out that in the 20+ years, neither of us can remember my ever choosing a movie that we've paid to see. NEVER. Perhaps we've watched some on TV (not likely) or rented (even less likely) but we can't think of a single one that we've paid to see

ouch!

2011-07-28T08:34:00.000-07:00

I've been running for years now. Not consistently, but on and off enough to consider myself a runner. Sometimes a walker, but mostly a runner. Or should I say jogger, since I never break 5.5mph? Anyway, the doctor once told me that I needed weight bearing exercise, so running is it.But over the years I've also loved yoga. I started taking yoga about 8 years ago at the gym I belonged to. It

Cranberry-Orange Apple butter

2011-07-22T16:57:00.000-07:00

My friend Lauri has apples. Tons of apples. She is kind enough to share with all her friends once she has run out of things to do with them. I wanted to make apple butter. I haven't made apple butter since we moved to Arizona in 1997. I don't even think I made apple butter the previous Christmas, which is unlike me, because I'd done it every other Christmas (along with green tomato relish

Boys

2011-07-22T13:08:00.000-07:00

I have 4 boys in my house (used to be 5 but the bird died.) My husband (who qualifies as an overgrown boy) Kyle (who is a man-boy now) Snoopy and Joe (who are technically male even though they were neutered at 6 months.) Boys like to fight. Boys like to hurt one another. Boys like to fall down and scrape their knees. Boys are messy. Boys. Snoopy and Joe have visited the vet far too

First Day of Work!

2011-07-17T14:30:00.002-07:00

Kyle went off to his first day of work today. Ron took his picture because it was such a historic day. (See Little Joe on the stairs watching?) After 16 (almost 17 years) of playing hockey, being too busy and feeding off mom and dad, Kyle found a job. It wasn't easy. He went into the store every week for months on end to try to get hired. His persistence paid off. Of course, he's only

The socks that can't be finished

2011-06-14T09:41:00.000-07:00

Seriously. I think that's why the yarn is named Seriously? cause I seriously cannot finish these socks. The yarn has been in my stash for years. I finally cast on in late February. Then two baby blankets came up that had to be done. This one is for Rebecca & Martin who had their first, beautiful, baby boy. And then this one was for Dwight and Priscilla who added a baby brother to big

Back to school....

2011-06-01T12:14:00.000-07:00

Funny how when the kids are just getting out of school, here I go back to school. Old person has no business trying to learn how to study again. Old brain is revolting. And I'm two days into it. Kyle and I will be going to summer school together. Sort of. He will be taking Econ/Government at the high school to try to satisfy a requirement for graduation, since he has to take math next year

So we finally got him.

2011-05-01T22:11:00.001-07:00

Osama Bin Laden. A decade after he unleashed hell on the American people. About time. And now what? Does anything really change? Food for thought. Speaking of food.... Made strawberry-banana muffins yesterday. Different. Yummy. Easy enough to make. The recipe is adapted from Joy of Baking I doubled the recipe for my jumbo muffin pans and used 5 medium bananas. My friend Krysten

Mmmmm Mac and Cheese

2011-01-05T17:49:00.001-07:00

In addition to baking my heart out (which I've taken a sabbatical from after the holidays,) I have been cooking again. New stuff, cause I am painfully bored with the staples. Last night I made macaroni and cheese. In this house we are on a quest to find something that comes close to Red Robin's Mac and Cheese, because Kyle claims there is nothing better on the planet. Last month I tried one

Happy 2011!!

2011-01-01T15:05:00.001-07:00

Happy new year everyone! While 2010 was definitely not my worst year on record, I am looking forward to the start of a fresh, new year and all it will bring. If you make resolutions, I hope that you have the resolve to stick to them. If you don't, that's okay too. I resolve to try to be a better person. To love more, to laugh more. To bake and share. To run with my dogs as much as possible

Merry Christmas (and other assorted holidays)

2010-12-25T13:54:00.000-07:00

I am so far behind in everything this year. This is the first year in many that I didn't even contemplate sending out cards. If you received one from me, count yourself among the lucky. I only sent out a handful (in response to cards received!) I did, however, manage to send out ecards! Baking has been the focus for December. I have baked many things. Red velvet cookies. Ginger Molasses

Hockey begins!!!

2010-09-03T10:20:00.000-07:00

In some parts of the country, Labor Day weekend signals the last weekend of summer. For others it's the last weekend before school resumes (not here, we start school in August and even in some areas, July!) And for some, it's the start of college football (GO BRUINS!) In my world, it's the official start to hockey season. The Labor Day tourney always kicks off the new season. Tonight at 5:

Life without a uterus....

2010-08-29T12:52:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all of you who have personally been following my journey from being "whole" to losing the "factory." HA! Someone said I'm an "it" now, no, not quite. Still have those ovaries to remind me regularly that I am in fact female! Life has not returned to normal. Not yet. While the blessing of having DaVinci surgery means you're back on your feet sooner, those feet are not steady. There

Eclipse....

2010-07-08T15:44:00.004-07:00

Another year, another Twilight movie with the Yarnies. What could be funnier than 8 grown women (with kids of their own) going to see a tween movie and squealing like tweens? We are dweebs. Or as Mands calls us "dorks in Forks."But it was awesome. Faves....Sitting next to Gherkin and watching her curl up in a ball and cover her eyes whenever Robert Pattinson was on the screen.Hearing Kitteh

And it's only summer now......

2010-06-21T12:35:00.003-07:00

Wow. Time flies, eh? Said RIP to the bird and apparently RIP to the blog too. Cause I haven't posted in MONTHS.News from the first half of 2010...Finished up yet another hockey season. Already done with tryouts for the next one. Kyle keeps saying this is his last year, but we shall see. We have 9 months of hockey ahead of us.Ron is still flying for US Air. He virtually had the entire first

RIP Bird

2009-12-27T09:08:00.001-07:00

We lost our bird to old age December 26th. Ron was with him as he flapped his wings one last time. Rest in peace little bird. Thanks for letting us be your friends at the end.

Merry Christmas from our chaos to yours

2009-12-25T10:01:00.001-07:00